Michael Gorra, Mary Augusta Jordan Professor of English
“Henry James’s The Portrait of a Lady (1881) has a double strength. It is
an extraordinary account of what it is to be an American—a complex
fate, in James’s own words—and, at the same time, it’s a turning point in
the history of the novel, a book that shows consciousness in a new way
and refuses the neatness of Victorian endings.” |
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